Join us March 18th 2012 for NBTS Phoenix Walk

Fellow Brain Buddies can sign up here for the 2012 Brain Tumor Walk
It will be held at Kiwanis Park in Tempe, Arizona.
As always, it will prove to be a successful event and I hope you all can join in.

 

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FBTA Annual Seminar 2012

The Diva is at it again!
Her famous FBTA brain tumor event and you guessed it… Graymatters Foundation will be there!!
The Florida Brain Tumor Association and
Moffitt Cancer Center’s
“Together in Hope” Conference will be held on
January 21, 2012.

More information and registration form may be downloaded by clicking here.

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Bright and Cheerful: Gray Matters Foundation Launches New Home on the Web

GLENDALE, AZ – (September 24) – The Gray Matters Foundation, the Arizona-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and encouragement of brain tumor patients and their loved ones through personal outreach and contact, announced today the launch of its newly designed website at www.GrayMattersFoundation.org.
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Dan Glassman’s Story

There are times in people’s lives when they hit the abyss. When things look so incredibly bleak and you feel that you will never dig yourself out. Last year I faced the abyss and Lanette, with her kindness and love and infectious spirit helped drag me out of the abyss, here is my story.
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Bruce Blount’s Story

I think it was at a brain tumor conference in Florida in 2006 (?) that I saw Lanette in the lobby of my hotel – sitting in an overstuffed chair, surrounded with greeting cards she was preparing for some Brain Buddies.
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John R. Davis’ story: The Banana Bread Man

My partner Jack and I first encountered Lanette nearly three weeks after his first brain surgery in October 2004. In fact, it was a Thursday evening October 21, 2004 when she called our home to introduce herself and offer her support as a brain tumor survivor. Those days leading up to that weekend are burned into my memory as within 36 hours of talking to Lanette on that Thursday evening Jack would suffer a stroke and nearly die.
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Formal Recognition for Brain Tumor Awareness Month

The U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1124 (H.Res. 1124) on May 21, 2008 and officially expressed the sense of the Congress that a National Brain Tumor Awareness Month should be established.
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Gray Matters Founder Featured on Local News

Lanette Veres, Founder & President of the Gray Matters Foundation, was profiled as part of the “Positively Arizona!” feature of television station KPHO. The show spotlights “Valley Residents Making a Positive Influence” and Lanette’s work to support brain tumor patients is featured. Lanette is shown creating one of her signature gift card envelope – decorated with stickers of course!

See for yourself! Click here and to watch the “Woman Helps Brain Tumor Patients, Survivors” video.

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Gray Matters CBS Channel 5 News Clip

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Gray Matters Foundation Launches to Bring Smiles to Brain Tumor Survivors

New nonprofit, 501(c)(3) group aims to bring hope through support

GLENDALE, AZ – (March 28) -Colorful postcards, bright and fanciful stickers and cheerfully decorated packages are welcomed by just about everyone. But for brain tumor patients and their loved ones they carry a special message of joy and hope when they are from the new brain tumor support organization, The Gray Matters Foundation.
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